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Ranges of Logical Drive Migration, than the Source logical drive

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RAIDXpert User Manual Important • The Target logical drive may require more physical drives than the Source logical drive • If the Target logical drive requires an EVEN number of physical drives but the Source logical drive has an ODD number, ADD a physical drive as part of the migration process • You cannot reduce the number of physical drives in your logical drive • You cannot migrate a logical drive when it is Critical or performing activities such as Synchronizing or Rebuilding • You cannot migrate a JBOD to a RAID or a RAID to a JBOD Ranges of Logical Drive Migration There are limitations to how large you can expand a logical drive, depending on the size of your current logical drive. The Windows 2000 and Windows XP (32-bit) operating systems support a 10-byte LBA format. This means that a logical drive can have up to 4 billion address blocks or sectors. This limitation does not apply to Windows XP (64-bit), 2003 Server, Vista, and Linux OSes with the 2.6 kernel. For Windows 2000 and Windows XP (32-bit), multiply the number of blocks by the sector size to find the capacity of a logical drive: 4,000,000,000 blocks x 512 bytes per sector = 2,048,000,000,000 bytes of data for a 2TB drive. Note that you cannot change the size of the sectors nor can you increase the number of address blocks above 4 billion. As a result, there are range limits imposed upon logical drive migration as shown in the table above. For example: • You can migrate a 2.5 TB logical drive up to 4 TB • You can only migrate a 1.9 TB logical drive up to 2 TB 106

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Ranges of Logical Drive Migration
There are limitations to how large you can expand a logical drive, depending on
the size of your current logical drive.
The Windows 2000 and Windows XP (32-bit) operating systems support a
10-byte LBA format. This means that a logical drive can have up to 4 billion
address blocks or sectors. This limitation does not apply to Windows XP (64-bit),
2003 Server, Vista, and Linux OSes with the 2.6 kernel.
For Windows 2000 and Windows XP (32-bit), multiply the number of blocks by
the sector size to find the capacity of a logical drive:
4,000,000,000 blocks x 512 bytes per sector = 2,048,000,000,000 bytes
of data for a 2TB drive.
Note that you cannot change the size of the sectors nor can you increase the
number of address blocks above 4 billion.
As a result, there are range limits imposed upon logical drive migration as shown
in the table above. For example:
•
You can migrate a 2.5 TB logical drive up to 4 TB
•
You can only migrate a 1.9 TB logical drive up to 2 TB
Important
•
The Target logical drive may require more physical drives
than the Source logical drive
•
If the Target logical drive requires an EVEN number of
physical drives but the Source logical drive has an ODD
number, ADD a physical drive as part of the migration
process
•
You cannot reduce the number of physical drives in your
logical drive
•
You cannot migrate a logical drive when it is Critical or
performing activities such as Synchronizing or Rebuilding
•
You cannot migrate a JBOD to a RAID or a RAID to a JBOD